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LEBANON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Lebanon"):
Byblos (an ancient Mediterranean seaport that was a thriving city state in Phoenicia during the second millennium BC; was the chief port for the export of papyrus; located in Lebanon to the north of Beirut; now partially excavated)
Sur; Tyre (a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks)
Saida; Sayda; Sidon (the main city of ancient Phoenicia)
Tarabulus; Tarabulus Ash-Sham; Trablous; Tripoli (a port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea)
Bayrut; Beirut; capital of Lebanon (capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean)
Meronyms (members of "Lebanon"):
Lebanese (a native or inhabitant of Lebanon)
Domain member region:
Popular Struggle Front; PSF (a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border)
Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah; Palestine Liberation Front; PLF (a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border)
Hezbollah; Hizballah; Hizbollah; Hizbullah; Islamic Jihad; Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine; Lebanese Hizballah; Organization of the Oppressed on Earth; Party of God; Revolutionary Justice Organization (a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon)
Force 17 (formed in 1972 as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders; became one of PLO's elite units; has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets)
Abu Nidal Organization; ANO; Arab Revolutionary Brigades; Black September; Fatah-RC; Fatah Revolutionary Council; Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims (a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries)
Asbat al-Ansar; Band of Partisans (an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda)
tabbouleh; tabooli (a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat)
Holonyms ("Lebanon" is a part of...):
Middle East; Mideast; Near East (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century)
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
Holonyms ("Lebanon" is a member of...):
Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)
